Academic interests

My main methodological interests are causal modeling in observational data, measurement of change, and measurement models in early childhood. My main substantive research interests are Early Childhood Education and Care, social inequality in early education, and consequences of childhood poverty. I am member of the Questionnaire Expert Group (QEG) developing the OECD Starting Strong Staff Survey (2016-2018), and participant in ISOTIS, an EU-funded (H2020) project about inequality in education. I am also PI (at NUBU) on a project about early social and cognitive stimulation in the family and in ECEC, and later academic achievement, funded by the Norwegian Research Coiuncil.

Background

I am trained as psychologist at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and received my PhD at the Department of Psychology at UiO in 2009. I was PhD fellow and later Post Doc fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Previous research interests have been parent-child attachment and child mental health, eating disorders, and psychiatric epidemiology.

Current positions

Main position: Senior Researcher, The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development (www.nubu.no).

Zachrisson, Henrik Daae (2009). Attachment in middle and late childhood : measurement validation and relation to mental health problems. Series of Dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. No.167.

Alves, Daniele Evelin; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae & Oppedal, Brit (2007). Validation of a short version of the Depression Experiences Questionnaire for Adolescents in a predominantly minority sample in Norway.